Elephant washing

Originally uploaded by Jeremy Cherfas.

I’m actually just testing this to see how blogging from Flickr works. It would save masses of time and effort (both of which are in short supply) to be able to do this kind of thing.

Later ... Odd. Flickr said that I had faile...

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Just passed a very pleasant hour or so doing what passes for gardening at this point in time and this place in space: transplanting cacti. I bought six of the little things at Ikea about a year ago, and imperceptibly they’ve grown. Time for bigger pots. But here’s the weird part.

As soon as I had...

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"He wears make-up, like me, maybe a little bit less but he does. He wears heels, so sometimes, at least aesthetically we have more in common than he would think."

The Italian election is just so entertaining, and even if you don't have the stomach to sit through all the TV on the subject, [Reu...

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Handy blogging tip No. 381: Blocked? Check your stats!

Why on Earth was someone searching Yahoo for free animal privets?

And will this post now beat out the one result for “animal privets,” which seems to be a splog that I’m not going to bother linking to.

p.s. The searches for guinea pig...

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How odd, to find, on the very same day, at two of the blogs I visit whenever they have something to offer, this:

Oooooh, look, I can spin in really tiny circles, and I can glide backwards while grabbing my leg and sticking it in my ear, and I can gesticulate balletically with my graceful arms wh...

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